Rasmus Lerdorf in Florida

The South Florida PHP Users Group has a very special speaker coming to South Florida in December. The creator of PHP will actually be in South Florida to talk about “PHP in 2011”. This is a FREE event, and anyone interested in the web can benefit from what this guy has to say. The event will be held at Nova Southeastern University on Wednesday, December 14th at 7:00 pm.

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995 and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He spent 7 years at Yahoo and has since worked for and consulted with various startups. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.